Message-Id: <199603191346.HAA01842@conline.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:45:30 -0600
To: quake-editing@nvg.unit.no, quake-editing@nvg.unit.no
From: jelson@l1.conline.com (Jim Elson)
Subject: Re: Legal issues (was: WAD conversion sketch)
Uffe Friis Lichtenberg <uffefl@diku.dk> wrote:
>I can't see any harm in the discussion or release of viewers/small
>editors/file format converters/etc. as long as they are not "marketed" as
>Quake-editors.
>
>BTW: until a Quake non-test version comes out this is all we have to play
>around with anyway, so there's no need trying to stop us now :)
Quite.
However, there is another factor in this equation: Exactly WHY did id release
the test in the form they did? (monsters, etc.) It's not as if they are
stupid enough to believe that no one would try to implement them or that
they could care less what we could do with it. Of course, I don't explain
a candid answer to this from them, but it is an interesting question and
the possibilities might shed some light on id's plans concerning editors,
utilities, etc.
--H2H
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